Coaches say focus is on championships
By Jeff Apel
Senior Editor
With the battles over, the Ne
braska men’s and women's swim
ming teams have turned their atten
tion lo the upcoming wars.
Nebraska men s sw miming coach
Cal Bentz and women's coach Ray
Huppert said their squads will spend
the next two weeics focusing on ihe
Big Eight championships. They said
thev do not plan on uiking any prison
ers at the conference “war'’ when it
is staged Marcn 1 through 4 at the
Bob Devanev Sports t enter.
Bentz said the Nebraska men took
a positive step towara winning their
1 Oth straight Big Eight title by deteat
ing Arkansas 68-45 Friday night at
the sports center and then defeating
Kansas 63-50 on Saturday. The Ne
braska women dropped a 63-50 deci
sion to the Jay haw ks.
Bentz said he is glad the Nebraska
men closed their dual season with a
10-3 record. Thai record marked the
most wins recorded in the 60-year
history of the Nebraska program.
Those are battles, but the Big
Eight s will be war,” Bentz said.
“We will have to have everyone
swim well in order to win. If we do
that, we feel pleased about our
chances.”
Huppert said he will not let his
team s setback affect Nebraska's
preparations for the Big Eight cham
pionships. The loss dropped the
Comhuskers’ record to 5-7 -- their
first losing season since 1981.
“We lost the bailie, but not the
war,” Huppert said. ‘‘We have to
look beyond the loss. We’ve got a
team that we’re trying to build char
acter, and that’s what we're accom
plishing.”
Huppert said he hopes the Ne
braska women are more competitive
during the Big Eight championships.
He said the 7-3 Jay hawks deserve a
tremendous amount of credit because
they dominated Nebraska.
“I hope things arc drastically dif
ferent next umc.” Huppert said. ‘‘I
hope we have a little more inspira
tion than Kansas does.”
Bent/ said he was surprised Ne
braska needed a late rally to defeat
Kansas. The Huskers trailed Kansas
45-43 after ten events, but swept the
top two spots in the three-meter div
ing competition, outscored the Jay
hawks 5-4 in the 200-yard
breaststroke and recorded a decisive
victory in the 400-yard freestyle re
lay to post the victory.
‘‘You’re always happy with a
win,” Bentz said. ‘‘But we have to
analyze what’s going on. Our team
came alive in terms of rising to the
occasion, but we need to find out
why some guys did not swim well.”
Kansas coach Gary Kempf said
he refused to be pleased with his
team’s split. He said the Jayhawks
had no intentions of earning one
victory and one loss.
“I’m not pleased, but I under
stand,” Kempf said. “We swam the
way we should swim - it was a good
team effort. We’re right where we
need to be.”
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Nebraska’s Mike Irvin competes in the 200-yard individual medley. Irvin won the event in
1:51.57 minutes.
No. 1 jmx persists as Sooners beat Arizona
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) -- Arizona
went to the top and got beat within a
week. So what else is new this sea
son?
Stacey King scored 24 points and
Oklahoma overcame a seven-point
second-half deficit Sunday to beat
the top-ranked Wildcats 82-80.
Since Oklahoma beat No. 3 Mis
souri this week, 2nd-rankcd Geor
getown lost to Pittsburgh and 4th
ranked Louisville lost to Florida
Stale, the Sooners probably will re
take the top spot Monday in this
week’s Associated Press poll.
“We volunteered last week,”
Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs said.
“Any lime you need us for No. 1,
we’ll do it. Someone’s got 10 do it.’’
Arizona became ihe third straight
top-ranked team to lose in its first
week as No. 1. Oklahoma did it two
weeks ago, Illinois did it last week.
So arc the Sooncrs’ the best team
in the country?
“When you really got down to it,
and I had to be fair, I’d probably put
us in there,” Tubbs said.
In beating Arizona, Oklahoma
won its 27th consecutive home
game. Sean Elliott scored 26 points
tor the 18-3 Wildcats, who had their
10-game winning streak snapped.
King scored 17 of his 24 points in
the second half and the Sooners made
five free throws in the closing sec
onds. King scored seven of his
team’s first nine points, then didn’t
score again until 3:12 into the second
half* as Arizona’s 1-3-1 defense
caused problems. When King finally
did score again, it ended an 11-0 run
that had given the Wildcats a 44-37
lead.
“The game was played at the
tempo we wanted,” Arizona coach
Lute Olson said. “In the first half we
did a really good job on him (King)
but great players, you can only con
trol them a while. That’s why they’re
great players.”
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